Baltic LINes news

Future shipping scenarios are important for all Baltic Sea countries, therefore transnational Baltic LINes project has been working on developing spatial shipping scenarios. The new project report “Quo Vadis - Exploring the future of shipping in the Baltic Sea” deals with the scenarios building activities done under the project. The goal of this report is to discuss the results of the shipping scenario activities along different themes and thereby provide suggestions for other activities in the project, for example the development of recommendations for MSP.

The Baltic Sea faces an increasing spatial demand for human activities. In particular offshore renewable energy is a quite new interest with a considerably high demand on sea space. In light of climate protection policy some countries have set national energy targets for offshore wind. For the implementation of these targets the offshore wind energy sector competes with other uses on limited space.

New Baltic LINes report developed by the Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development provides an insight into Latvia's experience on the development of future scenarios for shipping and energy sectors up to 2050 and the identification of critical issues at national and BSR levels, as well as key findings and outcomes.

Project "Baltic LINes" organises the international shipping sector stakeholder meeting and interactive simulation for the Baltic Sea “Shaping the Future of Shipping in the Baltic Sea”. The meeting will take place on January 24 – 25, 2018 in Riga, Latvia.

Two new reports from the project "Baltic LINes" are analysing data needs and availability as well as establishing guidelines to data exchange and dissemination towards building a prototype Baltic Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), which will make it easy to access open standard datasets.

During the 8th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR on 13 – 14 June 2017 in Berlin, project partners of "Baltic LINes" organized seminar "What's the future? Testing the possible scenarios for shipping and energy in the Baltic Sea and how to integrate them into maritime spatial planning".

The report "Shipping in the Baltic Sea: Past, Present and Future Developments Relevant for Maritime Spatial Planing" represents a first synthesis of available literature on the topic of shipping in the Baltic Sea and related past, present and future developments relevant for MSP.

Baltic LINes along with its sister project North SEE has been presented in the Interreg B Journal 2016 which is published by Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in Germany.

Two new European projects will improve transnational coordination in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in the North and Baltic Sea. Because human activities and their impacts do not stop at national sea borders, there is a need for coordination among national Maritime Spatial Plans and planning processes.

On the 30th-31st of October 2018, the Baltic LINes and Baltic InteGrid projects will organise an international meeting and interactive simulation called “Energy Challenge for the Baltic Sea” in Copenhagen. …

Project "Baltic LINes" organises the international shipping sector stakeholder meeting and interactive simulation for the Baltic Sea “Shaping the Future of Shipping in the Baltic Sea”. Meeting will take place on January 24 – 25, 2018 in Riga, Latvia. More information…